Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat bright.
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- adjective Somewhat
bright
Etymologies
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Examples
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One topic under discussion here in Britain is--what if we didn't try to pack every brightish 18-year-old off to university?
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I thought Io was kind of green and brightish with spots… This looked more like Europa to me?
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Or to come nearer home, recall the pretty, brightish, smug little people who are made with inimitable skill to illustrate the sawdust stuffing of middle-class democratic society.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Or to come nearer home, recall the pretty, brightish, smug little people who are made with inimitable skill to illustrate the sawdust stuffing of middle-class democratic society.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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If that continues, then the future is … brightish.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2005
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But he was a distinct Australian type, thin, hollow – cheeked, with a brightish brittle, red skin on his face, and big, dark, incensed – looking eyes.
Kangaroo 2004
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They're looking for a specific color before they buy it or before they eat their sushi, trying to find that sort of brightish, pinkish color.
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For the first four days there was no hæmoptysis, but for the succeeding nine days small brightish red clots were expectorated.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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But then, red was not her favorite color, particularly that shade of it referred to by Mr. Wooster as a fairly brightish scarlet.
When Last I Died Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1941
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Her brightish blue dress, of rough cloth, was nothing particular, notwithstanding the fit of it.
The Shuttle 1907
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